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Number   :  4714
Date     :  2003-06-02
Author   :  David Mayerovitch
Subject  :  Failure of CD-RW disks
Size(KB) :  1


I too have been having problems with CD-RW disks. I'm using a PlexWriter 
8/4/32A with Adaptec (Roxio) software. After a couple of weeks of 
backing up files, the CD-RW starts reporting various errors and soon 
becomes unreadable. For the moment I've simply switched to using a 
series of CD-R disks and have had no problems. I'd welcome any 
recommendations for reliable software and hardware that would enable me 
to use CD-RW with confidence for important backup duty.

David

>Message: 12
> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 00:24:51 -0500
> From: Kan Yabumoto 
>Subject: Re: Re: Two Questions
>
>
>Virg wrote:
>
> 
>
>>--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, Bernard Robinson 
>>wrote:
>>
>> 
>>
>>>Recently I wanted to clone a CD-RW to another CD-RW disc
>>>using XXCOPY. The target CD-RW had been used to back up
>>>the same folders and when I started the backup. I
>>>received an error message saying that there was not
>>>enough room on the target CD-RW for the operation. In
>>>the source CD-RW many, many files had been deleted, so
>>>there should have been room for the clone operation.
>>> 
>>>
>>I had the same experience with cd-rw (TDK 24/10/40, Nero) and I know I had 
>>not written nearly enough to it to fill it but Windows said it was full 
>>also. And I couldn't view it in order to delete anything. Had to 
>>reformat it. I'm dubious about repeatedly backing up to the same cd-rw 
>>disk (I'm talking only a few repeats, not hundreds or thousands). It 
>>worked for several incremental backups before that happened. I'm 
>>wondering if deleting files on cd-rw actually frees space. The few tests 
>>I've tried since seem to show that it does but I haven't much faith in 
>>cd-rw any more. Could use them like cd-r, I suppose and only back up to 
>>them once.
>>
>>Virg
>> 
>>



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